25 Aug 2021
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed
Bob Ross brought joy to millions as the world's most famous art instructor. But a battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.
Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan
Inner Relate: poetry of Paint, Politics, Place
Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until Dawn is a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (1927-1999), who painted all night to push the limits of vision. His life and thought reveal a correlation between art and activism through an interesting angle: the creative process itself.
Top Billed Cast
James Gahagan Himself (archival)
Patricia de Gogorza Herself
Gene Lesser Himself
Jacqueline Scott Herself
George Pearlman Himself
Andrea Pearlman Herself
Erik Koch Himself
Robert Henry Himself
Selina Trieff Herself
Catherine Peltz Herself
Peter Peltz Himself
David Zahn Himself
Lorna Ritz Herself
Carl Stallman Himself
Myrna Harrison Herself
Sam Menashe Himself (archival)
Paulo Gahagan Himself
Serena Gahagan Herself
Veda Gahagan Herself
George Ray Himself
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